Upper Ayers Creek Falls

Upper Ayers Creek Falls was an added unknown bonus find, though not entirely unexpected. While searching for Ayers Creek Falls, I entered the canyon of Ayers Creek too far upstream, and eventually wandered straight into the crest of this waterfall. Unusual for this area of Oregon, the falls skip 45 feet down a bulging basalt face, rather than dropping over an undercut ledge as its downstream sibling does. Immediately upstream of the falls, Ayers Creek flows over interesting solid bedrock formations for several hundred feet. Because of Ayers Creek's small drainage area, I expect it probably runs dry by May, give or take a month depending on the winter rainfall. When I visited the falls in March of 2005, Oregon was experiencing a significant drought, and the falls were running much lower than they should have been at that time of the year.